Re: Problem exporting to PDF (and viewing)

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> > > 2) If not, where is the code that interprets %s? I can try stepping
> > > through it and see what I can find.
> > >
> > 
> > It happens in org.el:org-open-file, specifically this piece of the code (I think):
> > 
> > ,----
> > |     (while (string-match "%s" cmd)
> > | 	(setq cmd (replace-match
> > | 		   (save-match-data
> > | 		     (shell-quote-argument
> > | 		      (convert-standard-filename file)))
> > | 		   t t cmd)))
> > `----
> 
> I did some tracing through, and have found where things go wrong. 
> 
> At the start of the code listed above, 
> 
> cmd = "c:/progra~1/sumatrapdf/sumatrapdf.exe %s" 
> file = "c:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
> 
> (convert-standard-filename file) returns
> "C:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
> 
> So far so good...
> 
> However, 
> 
> (shell-quote-argument (convert-standard-filename file)) returns
> "c\\:dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
> 

Does it really drop the slash in front of "dropbox"? When I do that
on my system, the : is quoted, but the slash is left alone:


(setq s "C:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf")
"C:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
(shell-quote-argument s)
"C\\:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
system-type
gnu/linux

If it does indeed drop the slash, can you try just putting it back and leaving
the backslashes alone?

Nick

> That's where the problem occurs. After this block of code is completed, cmd takes the value
> "c:/progra~1/sumatrapdf/sumatrapdf.exe c\\:dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
> 
> This command causes sumatrapdf to squawk with an error. It's the "\\:" that causes the problem. If, after this block of code executes, I manually switch the "\\:" back to ":/", so cmd goes back to 
> 
> "c:/progra~1/sumatrapdf/sumatrapdf.exe c:/dropbox/org/personal.pdf"
> 
> and then press "c" to continue, the PDF file pops up just fine. Could we just drop the call to shell-quote-argument? It seems like everything would work fine without this call.
>